Hahahaha. You guys are all lucky. I get zero OW swims EXCEPT in competition. None of the OW in Moscow is clean...this according to the Russian lifeguards here!
training; 30-40% OW (would be more, but this thing called winter gets in the way)
competition; 99.9999999% OW
Dave,
Why don't ya'll just chisle a path through the ice during winter? Then you could swim ow all year.
Dave,
Why don't ya'll just chisel a path through the ice during winter? Then you could swim ow all year.
Heh-heh. We thought of that already:
U.S. Masters Swimming Discussion Forums - View Single Post - Big Shoulders, 11 Sept. 2010, Chicago
:)
This past summer, and I'm not done yet, about 60 to 70% of my mileage was openwater. However winter probably reduces that percentage to around 20% for the year.
You are very lucky Mike to swim so much ow. I'm in the Chicago area and our outdoor swimming season is so short. If I am lucky I can get into Lake Michigan once every week or two and enter abut 5 OW events not including tris. So I don't do as much OW as I'd like!
100% of my training is in the pool, but I'm probably going to race 50-50 events between pool and open water. Measured in terms of total minutes racing, my OW racing will be greater than pool racing. I love both.
